Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin is the award-winning poet and author of "Rhapsody in plain yellow" (2003), "Hard Love Province" (2014), "A Portrait of the Self As Nation" (2018), "Sage" (2023), and "Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen" (2009), among others. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, she has translated poems by the modern Chinese poet Ai Qing and co-translated poems by the Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon, Chin’s works have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Recently, she was guest poet at universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manchester, Sydney, and Berlin. She’s won numerous awards, including the 2020 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the United Artist Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio, the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, two NEAs, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, five Pushcart Prizes, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan. She is featured in a variety of anthologies, including "The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women", "The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry," "The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century Poetry," and "The Best American Poetry." She is Professor Emerita at San Diego State University and presently serves as a Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets.